Today is Election Day. And if you haven’t voted already, please do. But regardless of the results, the real work of reconstruction has only just begun.
The year 2020 has proven to be a time of seismic change, as our planet convulses under climate extremes, the pandemic, and failing governments all around us. The pandemic, as many have noted, has unveiled systemic racial and economic inequities and the lack of human services infrastructure to answer basic needs of health, food, education, and housing justice. Alarmingly, we have witnessed too the steady rise of authoritarianism in the United States—as activists have warned against for decades— fueled by secret donors, increasingly powerful tech and media monopolies, extractive capitalism, and an overmilitarized society.
It has been a year of immense learning and of immeasurable heroism, not only from essential workers, migrant farmers, health professionals, teachers, and food bank providers, but from communities of color and their allies fighting against racism. We have seen families weather the storm in their own personal ways. We have seen so many take risks—from volunteers to journalists to lawyers in court, all acting to defend past hard-fought democratic gains from authoritarian erosion. The herculean efforts so many have made to get out the vote and cast ballots despite the pandemic and ongoing voting suppression tactics that have resulted in millions having to stand in line for hours have been no doubt heroic.
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